Tag: #Darts2024
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Awestruck and curious
One of the greatest mysteries in Irish sport in the last couple of decades has surely been how, having won the All Ireland SHC in 2013, it took Clare more than a decade to add to their haul in that department. Because, not only had their win over Cork been one of the best overall…
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Splinters everywhere on the fence…
Two weeks before Meath played Down in the All Ireland SFC Final of 1991, as a family, we celebrated Mam and dad’s 25th wedding anniversary. Back then, The Village Inn in Clonee – Lord rest its gentle soul – had live music every Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday night. It had sort of become a…
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Paddy Power PDC World Darts Championship 3rd Round Draw
Smith is gone, Wade is gone, Anderson is gone. Schindler’s no longer on the list. But there are still enough top notch performers left therein to ensure that the overall victor therein may not necessarily be a toss up between the two Lukes. The draw for when the action returns on December 27th for Round…
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‘Also-rans’ cause carnage carving up the field
It’s actually very fitting that what you will read hereafter is being produced so close to St Stephen’s (Boxing) Day. For the day after Christmas itself was the occasion on which Gavin Sheehan cajoled a truly rousing rally out of Hewick which nabbed the King George in most unlikely fashion for ‘Shark’ Hanlon’s (temporarily Tara…
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Doets has the horsepower to outstay the Bull(y)
Another Ally Pally clascic. Another Dutch darting star comes of age. Kevin Doets – the surname pronounced the same way some people pronounce Deutz tractors – just about having enough horsepower to outrun the Bull(y) Boy, Michael Smith. The only thing reducing the seismic nature of the world No. 2 being catapulted out of the…
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Cruelty of top level sport leaves lessons if you want to absorb them
Towards the end of Sean Boylan’s (first) glory-laden spell as Meath manager, his then charges played a Leinster SFC encounter in Croke Park on a scoring summers Saturday evening. Back when championship football was played when it should be in high summer. In said encounter they took on opponents who, although doughty, the Royal County…
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Littler and Sherrock on potential collision course
Should Fallon Sherrock, as would be expected, overcome Ryan Miekel in the first round of the William Hill sponsored World Darts Championship, the Queen of the Palace will then be faced with the more ominous proposition of potentially being nuked by last year’s runner up Luke Littler. Other potential pairings pulled out in Monday evening’s…
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Mike sweeps De Decks to hit the bigtime
The abolition – officially it may be ‘suspension’ but the masses know what’s at play here – of the pre season competitions in GAA slithered through with barely an eyebrow being raised. Yet I would suggest the vast majority of counties would have had no objection to their retention. As much as I can’t stand…
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Littler joins the big League
In the least surprising development since it was known the Pope was a Catholic, Luke Littler’s meteoric rise in the darting world continued apace this evening when it was announced the soon-to-be 17 year old was added to the field for the forthcoming Premier League. The Warrington lad has taken the sporting world be storm…
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Cool Hand crucial for Humphries but they both have world in their hands
Something had to give. Two lads of the same name. Both stars of their sport in their own way. Either of them would have been fitting and deserving winners of the Sid Wadell Trophy. One had had the sporting world in spin since the action got underway at the Alexandra Palace on December 15th. The…